Date:
Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
Assemble at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC
Historic Thousands on Jones Street People's Assembly 6
14 Point People's Agenda for North Carolina
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All Children Need High Quality, Well Funded, Diverse Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandrowith transparent accountability and creating special leadership teams in its failing schools.
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Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People. NC ought to provide livable wages, make sure no person goes hungry and that everyone in need has affordable, accessible childcare.
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Health Care for All. NC ought to provide its people with health insurance and prescription drugs, while funding public health programs to treat social diseases that plague Black and poor communities including HIV/AIDS, diseases caused by environmental pollution and warming, drugs, domestic violence, mental illness, diabetes, and obesity.
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Redress Two Ugly Chapters in N. C.'s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977. NC must implement its 1898 Wilmington Riot Commission recommendations and pay damages to the poor women it forcibly sterilized.
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Lift Every HBCU. NC must financially support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to develop equitable infrastructure and programs with doctoral-level leadership for today's challenges.
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Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting. NC must commission historical documentation of its contracting practices with racial minorities to justify constitutional redress.
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Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse. NC must provide an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for low-income renters, vouchers for wounded veterans who can not find accessible housing, meaningful tax breaks for seniors forced out of their homes, and protection against predatory lending and foreclosures.
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Put Young People to Work to Save the Environment and Fight for Environmental Justice. NC must establish an Environmental Job Corps for young people who did not graduate from high school to re-engage them in public service. NC must fight all forms of environmental injustice.
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Collective Bargaining for Public Employees and Support Smithfield Workers Right to Unionize. NC must support the right of Smithfield workers in Tar Heel to form a union and work in a safe environment, and support collective bargaining for public employees.
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Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations. NC must provide immigrants with health care, education, workers rights and protection from discrimination.
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Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now. NC cannot address injustice at home while we wage an unjust war abroad.
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Comments
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ought to provide livable wages, make sure no person goes hungry and that
everyone in need has affordable, accessible childcare.
Nuts:
manipulating private business models always fails (ask why Cabelas did not
relocate here…)
ought to provide its people with health insurance and prescription drugs,
while funding public health programs to treat social diseases that plague
Black and poor communities including HIV/AIDS, diseases caused by
environmental pollution and warming, drugs, domestic violence, mental
illness, diabetes, and obesity.
Socialism: see success
rate of
The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the
sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977. NC
must implement its 1898
Wilmington
Riot Commission recommendations and pay damages to the
poor women it forcibly sterilized.
History of the democrat party!
Elections.
Sure right along w/ voter ID!
financially support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to
develop equitable infrastructure and programs with doctoral-level
leadership for today's challen
Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting. NC
must commission historical documentation of its contracting practices
with racial minorities to justify constitutional redress.
See history of democrat party
Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse. NC
must provide an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for low-income renters, vouchers
for wounded veterans who can not find accessible housing, meaningful tax breaks
for seniors forced out of their homes, and protection against predatory lending
and foreclosures.
More dabbling into socialism. Can Work w/
vets.
Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons.
Sure, but allow
public executions on TV just ahead of Lotto Numbers
Fight for Environmental Justice. NC must
establish an Environmental
Job Corps for young people who did not graduate from
high school to re-engage them in public service. NC must fight all forms
of environmental injustice.
Support Smithfield Workers Right to Unionize. NC
must support the right of Smithfield
workers in Tar Heel to form a union and work in a safe environment, and
support collective bargaining for public employees.
Heck No. See “It is impossible to bargain collectively
with the government.” George Meany -- the former president of the
A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955
and other Nations. NC must provide immigrants
with health care, education, workers rights and protection from
discrimination.
Sure if they
are here legally
Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now.
No more funding
cannot address injustice at home while we wage an unjust war abroad.
I can go w/
some of this…but not on the same logic. Weakness is provocative.
"One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy."-Maj. Douglas Zembiec
Though it's not on the agenda specifically
there will be a contingent there in opposition to the amendment. Likewise the HKonJ coalition has provided support for anti-amendment efforts in the past.